Slatted belt



Nov. 2, 1926. 1,605,867

, O. STOTTS SLATTBD BELT Filed March 13, 1926 INVENTOR. 072613 670716.

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- tions transversely of the runner belts 1 and the.

Patented Nov. 2, 1925.

barren snares ORIEN STOTTS, OF PERRYTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO JAMES A. JACKSON, OF LIBERAL, KANSAS.

SLA'ITED BELT.

Application filed March 13, 1926. Serial No. 94,464.

This invention relates to slatted belts, and the object of the invention is the construc tion of a comparatively simple, yet etficient belt, provided with flights or cleats, and which belt may be used upon any kind of a machine, such as header-binders, combined harvesters and thrashers, and the like.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention comprises certain novel combinations, constructions and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary, perspective view of my slatted belt, showing the same in an inverted position.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary, perspective view of the auxiliary section of the cleat.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary, perspective view of the primary section of the cleat.

Figure i is a sectional view taken on line eli, Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 designates the runner belts; these belts are preferably arranged in parallel position, and resting upon these belts, are the primary sec- 2 of the cleats. The cleats extend conveying belt 3. Near each end and the middle oi the prin'iary section 2, I preferably punch up the body of the cleat to form the rivet receiving apertures 4. Each section is provided with an upstanding longitudinally extending rib 5, and this rib 5 fits into the rib 6 formed on the auxiliary cleat 7 when the parts are assembled, as shown in Figures 1 and 4. The primary sections 2 are laid across the runner belts 1, then the conveying belt 3 is laid over sections 2, then the auxiliary sections are laid upon the conveying belt, so that the ribs 5 and 6 register. lhe auxiliary sections 7 are provided with apertures 8 that register with the apertures l; these apertures 8 are larger than apertures .4, so that the upstanding edges of apertures i may extend partly into apertures 8, whereby the inner or lower heads of rivets 9 are seated up in the sockets formed by the upwardly extending portions of the apertures 1, thereby decreasing the wear on the belt, by the rivets not hitting or pounding against the surface over which the runner belts travel during the operation of the belt. If the lower heads of the rivets protruded, it would be only relatively a short time before they would be worn oil, and the tendency would positively be to wear on the belt, as the heads readily seen how portions of the runner belts 1 are held or pressed up into the sockets constituted by the apertures 4, with the lower heads of the rivets out of the way, in these sockets, for the smooth running of the belt, as well as the increasing oi the life of the same.

Nhile I have described the preferred embodiment of my invention, and illustrated the same in the accompanying drawing, certain minor changes or alterations may appear to one skilled in the art to which this invention relates, during the extensive manufacture of the same, and I, therefore, reserve the right to make such changes or alterations as shall fairly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Vhat I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, a slatted belt comprising a series of parallel runner belts, a plurality of sectional cleats resting upon and extending transversely of said runner belts, each sectional cleat including a primary and an auxiliary section, said primary section provided near its ends and middle with upwardly punched apertures, constituting rivet receiving sockets, said auxiliary section provided near its ends and middle with comparatively large apertures registering with the apertures of the primary section, a conveying belt above said runner belts and positioned between the primary and auxiliary sections of the cleats,

and rivets extending through the runner belts and the conveying belt and the regis tering apertures of the sections of the cleats, holding parts of the runner belts up in the apertures of the primary sections of the eoaeer cleats, with the lower heads of the rivets seated up in the said receiving sockets in a plane above the outer face of the runner belts.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

ORIEN STOTTS. 

